Firefox 11 is out, users can now sync add-ons across computers

Mozilla is chugging away at them Firefox updates, officially releasing Firefox 11 today. Most of the changes, once again, deal with back-end and developer issues rather than end-user facing features. The most significant change for the end-user is the ability to sync add-ons across multiple computers for anyone that uses Firefox Sync. Other than that, HTML5 video controls have been redesigned, you can now import bookmarks, history, and cookies from Google Chrome, and a bug with Growl 1.3 notifications has been fixed. The rest of the changes are nothing that will be of interest to the average user:

The CSS text-size-adjust property is now supported

The outerHTML property is now supported on HTML elements

View source syntax highlighting now uses the HTML5 parser

The Style Editor for CSS editing is now available to web developers

Web developers can now visualize a web page in 3D using the Page Inspector 3D View

SPDY protocol support for faster page loads is now testable

XMLHttpRequest now supports HTML parsing

Files can now be stored in IndexedDB

Websockets has now been unprefixed

Firefox 11 will be rolling out to users through Firefox’s auto-update starting in a few days; anyone that is impatient and wants to upgrade now can grab it from Mozilla’s FTP repository (link below). If after upgrading to Firefox 11 you find your add-ons have been disabled, feel free to give Add-On Compatibility Reporter a try to show Firefox who is boss.

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